Date of source: Saturday, April 5, 2014
Al- Akhbar reports on the role of the Islamic and Christian clerics in spreading awareness on the importance of positive participation in the forthcoming presidential elections. Dr. Mukhtār Gum’ah, Minister of Endowments, stated that the role of the imams will be to spread awareness without calling...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 11, 2014
For the third day in a row, Coptic children in the village of Daljā in the governorate of Minya were prevented from attending their schools in Dayr Muwās, due to the threat of kidnapping or death from members of the Muslim Brotherhood. One child has been kidnapped and his family asked for a ransom...
Date of source: Sunday, March 9, 2014
Father Ayyūb Yūssuf, pastor of the Catholic Church in the village of Dalgā in the governorate of Minya, has called for the arrest of seven men accused of assaulting a Coptic man. The men suddenly arrived at the home of Kāmil Sālih Jād al-Rabb, 62, beat him and dragged him along the ground. Joseph...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 23, 2014
A joint prayer is organized for tomorrow by the Council of Egyptian Churches, which encompasses the Orthodox, Catholic, Episcopal, Evangelical, and Roman Catholic Churches.
The prayer is to be held at the St Mark’s Cathedral in the ‘Abāssiyah district tomorrow night as a call for peace in Egypt,...
Date of source: Friday, September 19, 2014
In occasion of president al-Sīsī’s speech at the United Nations, the Egyptian Catholic Church announced that it will join the Egyptian Front Coalition in support for their president and the legitimacy of the 30th of June at the United Nations Plaza in New York on coming Thursday 25th of September.
Date of source: Friday, November 30, 2018
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Diaconia Office for development projects, affiliated to Coptic Catholic Church, organized on Friday a forum on the role of women in the Egyptian society, and the various forms of violence exercised against her.
Date of source: Thursday, February 27, 2014
Pope Tawadros II received a delegation of the Bayl al-‘Ailah or “Family House” (a committee initiated by al-Azhar comprised of both Muslims and Christians clergy aimed at finding solutions to sectarianism) in his papal residence at the end of the first meeting of the second religious discourse...
Date of source: Thursday, July 17, 2014
A committee preparing the "Church Building Law", convened a meeting yesterday to agree on main formulations on the law to be submitted to the Minister of Transitional Justice, Ibrahīm Hunaidī, next August. Councelor Jamīl Halīm, representative of the Catholic Church in the Committee made a number...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 16, 2014
A statement issued by the Catholic Diocese of Minya, stated that there are no criminal suspicion in the deaths of 11 Copts who drowned in Rās Gharīb, the Red Sea. The statement pointed out that the victims were part of a trip organized by the church to Coptic monasteries in the Red Sea governorate
Date of source: Tuesday, February 25, 2014
The three Coptic Churches have welcomed the resignation of the government of Dr. Hāzim al- Biblāwī and stated that the timing was right. They requested the formation of a technocratic government in order to fulfill the demands of the revolution. They requested that the new government strengthens...